Various notes in pencil. Includes notes made from ‘MJ and RM tape’ [Major Mark Joslyn and Robin Matthews, Cavalry Rgt.], with timings written in left margin against particular notes. Also, many small yellow ‘post-it’ notes attached to pages using clear tape, indexed by side headings: Lear; Bus[ne...
Various notes in pencil. Includes notes made from ‘RM’ tape [Robin Matthews], Cavalry Rgt., with timings written in left margin against particular notes. Also, many small yellow ‘post-it’ notes attached to pages using clear tape, indexed by the following side headings: Scene Plan; Rams; DH [David...
Some notes in pencil, but largely comprising many small yellow ‘post it’ notes attached to pages with clear adhesive tape, indexed by the following side headings: Narrative; Crossovers; Themes; Ideas; Images; Research; Gawain; Iraq (1); Afghanistan; Gay; Spies; Things; Zen; Smell; Culture; Techno...
Some notes in pencil, but largely comprising many small yellow ‘post it’ notes attached to pages with clear adhesive tape, indexed by the following side headings: Gags; Ads (Tech); Ads (Gen); Butcher; Camilla; Mark; Stanley; Childhood; Busner; Sound; Dialogue; Alzheimer’s; Tropes; Research; Quote...
Some notes in pencil, but largely comprising many small yellow ‘post it’ notes attached to pages with clear adhesive tape, indexed by the following side headings: Autism; Bodily Movement (proprioception); Cult[ure] 1955; Cult[ure] 1985; Cult[ure] 2015; Dialogue; Election 2015; Gags; History [no n...
Will Self: Phone: Background Research (various magazines)
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Four complete magazines (all unmarked): (1). Time (4 Mar 1985). Includes ‘Thatcher in the U.S.’ (2). The Face (September 1985). Includes ‘Ibiza: Holiday Babylon’. (3). New Statesman (24 Oct 1986). Includes ‘Bang goes the City’. (4). New Statesman (7 Nov 1986). Includes ‘AIDS: Steps to Desola...
Will Self: Phone: Background Research (Miscellaneous)
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(1). List of military slang. Word-processed (2 sheets). (2). List of slang words and phrases (Liverpool and Manchester usage). Word-processed (2 sheets). (3). Extracted photocopied pages (3 double-sided sheets) from Roger Caillois, Man, Play and Games (1961). (4). Complete programme for a rec...
Will Self: Phone: Typescript Draft (second portion)
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The second portion of the earliest continuous draft of Phone. Mostly typewriter-written. Annotated in pencil throughout, including annotations on the verso of some sheets. Some passages marked with highlighter pen. Pages span pp. 151-378, as follows: 151-178 (typewriter-written); 179-208 (word-...